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Re: Suggestion for MLCad.
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Wed, 9 Feb 2000 23:24:15 GMT
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> > I can't help but think that I speak for the majority when • I
> > say that when I click on the zoom button I want it to use
> > the currently selected part as the center of the view.
> > Could you set this as the default behavior instead?

> Suggestion: I add an option to the settings where you can • enable such a
> feature. If enabled I zoom to the center of all • selections. This means if
> there is only one part selected, I zoom to it's center. If • there are more
> parts I zoom to the virtual center of all selections.

Cool!  I guess I'll be looking for version 1.8 soon then :-)

> > Another idea, this one about the "Modify" dialog box.  If • I
> > click on the description header to sort the parts by name • I
> > have to scroll through the list to find my current part
> > again.  It's still highlighted, but I guess it gets lost
> > during the resorting.  Can this be fixed to keep the
> > highlighted part on screen when the sorting is changed?

> Should be no problem ...

Didn't think so.  Another reason for me to grab the
upcomming 1.8.

> > Finally, has there been any luck in fixing the bug that
> > blanks out the lower half of the part catalog and the • upper
> > left view window?  I know about the workaround and this
> > isn't a real problem...it just bugs (pun intended :-) me.

> What I found out so far is that it seems to happen in 95 • only?! I didn't get
> the chance to test it with 98 yet. Under NT this error • never happens ...
> More detail: I found out that this problem is caused by • some operating system
> bug, which invalidates this area somehow (which is not • updated) causing
> drawing operations clipped away in this region. No trick • seems to work, to
> tell windows that this area is valid and should be updated • as normal ... until
> you restart the prog. or iconize and restore it.

Oh well.  Two out of three ain't bad :-)

Thanks,
Will



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